Chapter 179: I Want to Play
The sudden infighting between Milicic and Batum caught everyone off guard. Hollins, who wanted to reprimand these substitute players and drag down the team again, was also stunned and at a loss. Admittedly, in his coaching career, he has never encountered a situation where a team player is about to fight when he is playing.
Milicic and Batum can be regarded as refreshing his cognition.
And the surrounding Grizzlies players were no better, until Ding Moan rushed up and dragged Milicic back, and they hurriedly came up to pull the rack. As for Batum, who was fighting with Milicic, he didn't dare to talk more at this time, because Milicic really dared to hit people!
Recalling the fist that Milicic waved high just now, Batum, a rookie rookie, how dare he fight Milicic again. Regardless of Milicic's size advantage, Batum himself is not the kind of tough and fierce player, and in this situation, he also knows that he seems to have provoked the wrong person.
In this way, he was pulled to the other end of the bench by other Grizzlies players. And Milicic, who let Ding Mo'an hold him, has also calmed down, and was honestly pulled to the side like Ding Mo'an, separating the two objects of infighting. After all, Ding Mo'an, the leader of the team, ran up to pull the fight, and Milicic didn't give face to others, but also to give face to Ding Mo'an, the boss of the team.
Therefore, after being taken aside, Milicic looked like a student who had made a mistake, and faced Ding Mo'an with his head bowed. After Milicic calmed down, he thought about the gravity of his punch. If it's just verbal and Batum's verbal exchanges, then there is still room for maneuver.
But he shook his fist in front of tens of thousands of Memphis fans at the scene, hundreds of thousands of Memphis fans outside the stadium, and even in front of the American media gathered in the FedEx Arena. This matter has also been raised to the level of irreparability. No team wants a prick, a player who punches at his teammates.
Even if there is extenuating circumstances, and even if Milicic may have a reason, no one will delve into the end of the matter. Because what everyone saw was the final result, what they saw was Milicic's move to punch Batum. By this time, deep remorse had filled Milicic's heart. Milicic is not stupid, but his temperament has changed greatly since he was a child due to his environment and the circumstances after entering the NBA.
Now, he could already imagine what the consequences would be. The media will certainly not let go of this exciting news material, and the person concerned, Milicic, will definitely not escape. Losing his reputation is a small thing, but the real impact on him is undoubtedly his career.
First of all, Grizzly management will not let him go. After all, Milicic threw punches at his teammates, which is an absolute scandal in any sport. And Milicic's punch, in the end, it was Ding Mo'an, the cornerstone of the Grizzlies management, who was the most favored by the Grizzlies management.
Milicic punched his teammates, doesn't it just show that Ding Mo'an does not have enough control over the team's locker room? If it were someone else, would Milicic dare to throw a fist? Let the son of Memphis take the blame for Milicic, who has been reduced to a backup center on the team and is still a parallel trader, Grizzlies management does not want hundreds of thousands of Memphis fans to surround FedEx Arena again.
After all, compared to Milicic and Ding Moan, Memphis fans must have to cry out for their Memphis sons. The frustration of the fans alone was enough to keep Milicic from staying in the city of Memphis. Therefore, it's not hard to imagine that when this game is over, Milicic's name will definitely appear on the Grizzlies trade list shortly after.
The second is the most fatal. Even if the Grizzlies management is a big sale, they have to clean up the door and trade Milicic out of the way if they can't bear to lose money, but which team will want him. If Milicic is a center who averages 10+10 per game, then many undisciplined or age-old teams like the Knicks, professional cancer teams may bring him in, so that he can turn over after struggling in the regular season.
However, Milicic is far from qualified! Last season, he averaged 5.5 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for the league's most common blue-collar interior lineup, and that's what he gets as a starting center. This season, his statistics are because Ding Mo'an is interested in this very agile interior player who can play from the No. 5 position to the No. 3 position, so he also feeds the ball, and only allowed Milicic to get 6 points and 3 rebounds in the last game.
With such data, even the Grizzly Bear trade is not cared for. If the Grizzlies can't trade him, they must have refrigerated him for a season, preferring to rot in their hands rather than let Milicic play, or even send him to the NBDL. This was an absolute devastating blow to Milicic's career.
Not surprisingly, because of this incident, Milicic will definitely not be able to appear in the NBA next season. After leaving the NBA, he could only mix in the European league until he retired. This ending made Milicic, who was full of ambition and rekindled hope, and wanted to prove himself was a heavy blow.
Ding Moan also understands this truth, and Milicic's punching has a high chance of ending his career in the NBA. But the game was about to continue, and Ding Mo'an could only sigh and pat Milicic on the shoulder, which was considered comfort. To be honest, in the last game against the Rockets, Milicic was able to run as flexibly as a small forward with the size of a center, so that Ding Mo was relieved about how to solve Mark. Gasol and Kevin. Lefu changed the anti-gear dismantling, and the speed was slow. Therefore, Ding Mo Anxin did not want Milicic to leave the Grizzlies.
But the referee has blown the whistle to continue the game at this moment, and the dumbfounded head coach Hollins just now can't care about solving the infighting, and now everything has to make way for the game, as for the infighting between Milicic and Batum, Hollins chooses not to ask. It's up to the team boss and locker room leader Ding Mo'an and Grizzlies management to solve the problem.
As a manager, he just needs to coach the game well, it's his job. So Hollins didn't hesitate to change the starting lineup and clean up the mess for the bench. And next to Stan. Van Gundy was smiling, not only because the team is now eight points ahead, but also because the Grizzlies are happy about the sudden outbreak of infighting.
For Stan. For Van Gundy and the Magic, this is the icing on the cake. The Grizzlies are all infighting, and this game is not in their hands. Stan. The joy of Van Gundy and the rest of the Magic players added insult to injury to the Memphis fans on the sidelines.
The fact that the Grizzlies were eight points behind didn't worry Memphis fans much. What is the virtue of their own team's bench lineup, Memphis fans will not know. Falling behind is a certainty, after all, Memphis fans didn't expect a weak bench to decide the outcome of the game.
However, Milicic and Batum's backwardness when the team fell behind was unacceptable to Memphis fans. They can accept that the team is behind, but they can't accept the behavior of the two of them stabbing the team when it is already difficult. The last thing you want to see infighting is undoubtedly the fans who love the team.
So when the game resumed, except for Dwight. When Howard or O.J. Mayo, the two Memphis opponents, got the ball, they were booed by the Memphis fans in the stadium, and the Memphis fans did not hesitate to send the boos to Milicic and Batum, who were sitting at opposite ends of the bench.
Under the wild boos of the audience, Hollins let Milicic, who was the worst of the time, go back to the locker room first. And this decision is also equivalent to judging the outcome of this infighting, and Milicic's days in Memphis have entered the countdown. Milicic accepted the result very calmly and walked into the tunnel with a white towel over his head.
But when Milicic walked into the players' tunnel, there were no countless people's eyes and the spotlight of the media flashed wildly at him, this big man of more than two meters, Milicic, who was unruly and wanted to prove himself worthy of the top spot, shed tears in his eyes.
I want to play!
Milicic sat alone in the empty locker room, looking at the game in the locker room, recalling the image he was selected by the Pistons a few years ago.
And when Milicic was forced to drop by head coach Hollins to let the home fans unleash their anger, the situation of the Grizzlies on the court was also precarious. I don't know if it was affected by the infighting between Milicic and Batum just now, only Ding Mo'an was struggling to support the Grizzlies, and the other teammates didn't feel anything.
In this situation, the Magic team is playing more and more smoothly. Because after the timeout, the Magic also stepped up their interior offense. After all, on the inside, Dwight. Howard confronts Mark. Gasol can be described as completely suppressed. Even on the outside, Ding Mo'an defended O.J. Mayo and even made a steal, but he couldn't stop Mike Conley from making Dwight Howard treat the final half of the second quarter as his personal dunk show.
But the referee has blown the whistle to continue the game at this moment, and the dumbfounded head coach Hollins just now can't care about solving the infighting, and now everything has to make way for the game, as for the infighting between Milicic and Batum, Hollins chooses not to ask. It's up to the team boss and locker room leader Ding Mo'an and Grizzlies management to solve the problem.
As a manager, he just needs to coach the game well, it's his job. So Hollins didn't hesitate to change the starting lineup and clean up the mess for the bench. And next to Stan. Van Gundy was smiling, not only because the team is now eight points ahead, but also because the Grizzlies are happy about the sudden outbreak of infighting.
For Stan. For Van Gundy and the Magic, this is the icing on the cake. The Grizzlies are all infighting, and this game is not in their hands. Stan. The joy of Van Gundy and the rest of the Magic players added insult to injury to the Memphis fans on the sidelines.
The fact that the Grizzlies were eight points behind didn't worry Memphis fans much. What is the virtue of their own team's bench lineup, Memphis fans will not know. Falling behind is a certainty, after all, Memphis fans didn't expect a weak bench to decide the outcome of the game.
However, Milicic and Batum's backwardness when the team fell behind was unacceptable to Memphis fans. They can accept that the team is behind, but they can't accept the behavior of the two of them stabbing the team when it is already difficult. The last thing you want to see infighting is undoubtedly the fans who love the team.
So when the game resumed, except for Dwight. When Howard or O.J. Mayo, the two Memphis opponents, got the ball, they were booed by the Memphis fans in the stadium, and the Memphis fans did not hesitate to send the boos to Milicic and Batum, who were sitting at opposite ends of the bench.
Under the wild boos of the audience, Hollins let Milicic, who was the worst of the time, go back to the locker room first. And this decision is also equivalent to judging the outcome of this infighting, and Milicic's days in Memphis have entered the countdown. Milicic accepted the result very calmly and walked into the tunnel with a white towel over his head.
But when Milicic walked into the players' tunnel, there were no countless people's eyes and the spotlight of the media flashed wildly at him, this big man of more than two meters, Milicic, who was unruly and wanted to prove himself worthy of the top spot, shed tears in his eyes.
I want to play!
Milicic sat alone in the empty locker room, looking at the game in the locker room, recalling the image he was selected by the Pistons a few years ago.
And when Milicic was forced to drop by head coach Hollins to let the home fans unleash their anger, the situation of the Grizzlies on the court was also precarious. I don't know if it was affected by the infighting between Milicic and Batum just now, only Ding Mo'an was struggling to support the Grizzlies, and the other teammates didn't feel anything.
In this situation, the Magic team is playing more and more smoothly. Because after the timeout, the Magic also stepped up their interior offense. After all, on the inside, Dwight. Howard confronts Mark. Gasol can be described as completely suppressed. Even on the outside, Ding Mo'an defended O.J. Mayo and even made a steal, but he couldn't stop Mike Conley from making Dwight Howard treat the final half of the second quarter as his personal dunk show.
Under the wild boos of the audience, Hollins let Milicic, who was the worst of the time, go back to the locker room first. And this decision is also equivalent to judging the outcome of this infighting, and Milicic's days in Memphis have entered the countdown. Milicic accepted the result very calmly and walked into the tunnel with a white towel over his head.
But when Milicic walked into the players' tunnel, there were no countless people's eyes and the spotlight of the media flashed wildly at him, this big man of more than two meters, Milicic, who was unruly and wanted to prove himself worthy of the top spot, shed tears in his eyes.
I want to play!
Milicic sat alone in the empty locker room, looking at the game in the locker room, recalling the image he was selected by the Pistons a few years ago.
And when Milicic was forced to drop by head coach Hollins to let the home fans unleash their anger, the situation of the Grizzlies on the court was also precarious. I don't know if it was affected by the infighting between Milicic and Batum just now, only Ding Mo'an was struggling to support the Grizzlies, and the other teammates didn't feel anything.
In this situation, the Magic team is playing more and more smoothly. Because after the timeout, the Magic also stepped up their interior offense. After all, on the inside, Dwight. Howard confronts Mark. Gasol can be described as completely suppressed. Even on the outside, Ding Mo'an defended O.J. Mayo and even made a steal, but he couldn't stop Mike Conley from making Dwight Howard treat the final half of the second quarter as his personal dunk show.